I am superhappy that you guys are working on this! Also, it is quite a relief to see our data functionally validated! 🥹😅

Tissue-specific distribution of eggs in the definitive host drives transcriptomic and behavioral differences in Schistosoma mansoni miracidia Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by human-infective schistosomes (Trematoda: Schistosoma). Intestinal schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa and the Neotropics is caused primarily...

I am pleased to present a project we've been working on for the least year to try to answer a fundamental question - does a parasite's developmental niche as an egg have effects on larval stages? We show that the answer is very much yes - which has a few implications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Is this Christmas?Join me in welcoming the wonderful Czech Society for Parasitology to Blue Sky!! @parazitologiecz.bsky.social
They are also selling really amazing 2025 calendars with amazing pictures, reach out to them to see whether they have any left ;)

Prospective PhD students...
Please check out this exciting opportunity in Prof. Matt Berriman's lab in Glasgow to investigate how #schistosome eggs interact with tissues of their host to cause #granulomas, co-supervised by yours truly 😊 🪱 🧪 #ImmunoSky
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...